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TIL In 2013, the government of Iceland asked several FBI agents to leave after they lied to the local government and told them they were investigating terrorist hackers. It turned out they were investigating wikileaks.

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jN1np TIL that while Screen Actors Guild members earn an average of $52,000 a year, the vast majority take home less than $1,000 a year from acting jobs.
4XmMb TIL that the Persian Empire counted how many soldiers in a battle died through counting the arrows that each soldier would place in a basket before a battle. When the soldiers came back, they each picked up an arrow and the remaining arrows would be counted to calculate the total amount of deaths
mJWE TIL the term “mark” (for a gullible person) originated at carnivals when workers operating games of chance would give a patron a slap on the back with a dust covered hand, “marking” him as a sucker for other carnival operators.
8WDa TIL Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan
v17GL TIL the tritone was never banned by the Catholic church; it was called "the devil in music" in one medieval music theory text because its vibrations made it technically difficult to sing. The tritone was not literally associated with the concept of evil until Black Sabbath popularized the myth.